Girl denied copy job despite headline-writing skill
Through all of the applying-not-applying-applied-un-applied EiC madness I was never confused enough to take the time to save and upload this cover.
Features editor. If not for the pay cut, drastically smaller page count (not to mention, uh, "prestige" count), and the fact that it's not what I wanted, it'd be an easy choice.
God-fucking-damn it.
posted by Tessa @ 17:10
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Well, to be fair, the most ground-breaking story in the world could very well be a feature. Then you'd get your prestige.
I could write ground-breaking features regardless of my editorial title, yo. But I have a distinct feeling that more money = more ground-breaking. Not sure why that is. Plus, I like complaining.
Not as cool of an office!
Dave
At least I'll be closer to the Photo Editor!
features do have more freedom than News does, this is true. But really, pay has nothing to do with prestige (come on, we folks at the Argosy are on the very bottom of the totem pole of that's true - we're so low that we're sucking at the dredges of every other paper but I think we still put together something interesting for our audience. Don't associate pay with prestige too quickly or we equate Paris HIlton with awesomeness all of a sudden (barf).
The section is in your hands. You can argue for more pages if you can fill them. You can write groundbreaking investigative material on anything you want, regardless of whether or not it's timely. You can spend your year picking apart any organization, student or otherwise, you desire.
Long live Tessa the Features editor!
Really, tessa-tasticness will follow you everywhere - even acros section boundaries (hey, it can cross provincial ones, why not paper ones, right?).
Cheers!
W3